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A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War by Letitia M Burwell 9780692287026
RRP: £12.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692287026Author Letitia M BurwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Confederate Reprint CompanyPublisher Confederate Reprint CompanyWeight(grams) 213g -
A Defence of Virginia: And Through Her of the South in the Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party by Robert Lewis Dabney D D 9780692422908
RRP: £19.99£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692422908Author Robert Lewis Dabney D DFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Confederate Reprint CompanyPublisher Confederate Reprint... -
The Words Lincoln Lived by: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path by Gene Griessman 9780684841229
£10.05A Lincoln scholar and performer brings the warmth, wisdom, and humor of our sixteenth president alive in a collection of inspiring quotations on achievement, responsibility, simplicity, and other timeless values that form the foundation of a meaningful... -
The Only True America: Following the Trail of Lewis and Clark by David Hauser 9780595100569
RRP: £18.99£14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595100569Author David HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 513g -
I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President: Henry Clay Wins the Presidency by Stephen J Goedert 9780595090150
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595090150Author Stephen J GoedertFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Writer's Showcase PressPublisher Writer's Showcase PressWeight(grams) 290g -
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase 9780544313279
RRP: £30.00£20.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544313279Author Owen ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Harcourt Books, IncPublisher Harcourt Books, IncWeight(grams) 313g -
The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America by John S. Haller 9780393008456
RRP: £21.00£17.42"Men and women in late nineteenth-century America," write John S. Haller and Robin M. Haller, "faced a bewildering and conflicting array of roles forced on them by a newly industrialized society." Nowhere were these roles more sharply... -
The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster by Marc L Songini 9780312380953
RRP: £27.99£17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312380953Author Marc SonginiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age by H. W. Brands 9780307743251
RRP: £20.00£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307743251Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 207gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky 9780143114901
RRP: £24.00£17.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114901Author Jane KamenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420g -
A Few Murphys From Brockton by Kevin Murphy 9780974935232
RRP: £19.95£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974935232Author Kevin MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Shining Tramp PressPublisher Shining Tramp PressWeight(grams) 349g -
Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial by Jeremy Schipper 9780691259314
RRP: £15.99£13.11A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. He was convicted of plotting what... -
Longing for Connection: Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America by Andrew Burstein 9781421448305
RRP: £29.00£22.79Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War.Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like... -
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America by Marilyn Irvin Holt 9780803272651
RRP: £15.99£12.85"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best... -
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York by Tyler Anbinder 9780316564809
RRP: £32.50£20.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564809Author Tyler AnbinderFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 717g -
How the U.S. Cavalry Saved Our National Parks by H. Duane Hampton 9780253031167
RRP: £12.99£11.77Late in the evening of August 17, 1886, Troop M, First United States Cavalry, marched into Yellowstone National Park, relieved the Park Superintendent of his duties, and inaugurated a new era of national park administration. When Yellowstone was... -
Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era by Nell Irvin Painter 9781324050605
RRP: £15.99£13.71In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in industrial and agricultural productivity; by 1919, per capita gross national product had soared. But this new wealth and new power were not... -
Spirits of Amoskeag: The Wounded Heroes of the Manchester Mills by Lois Hermann 9780997156706
RRP: £18.88£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997156706Author Lois HermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Light PublishingPublisher Light PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations by Emily Conroy-Krutz 9781501773983
RRP: £37.00£32.82Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia,... -
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning by Steven T. Moga 9780226833330
RRP: £28.00£27.39Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black... -
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West by Wayne Bethard 9781570984549
RRP: £14.99£11.53Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits- Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to popular medicinal forms during America's frontier era that were said to cure everything from fallen arches to... -
Madison v. Marshall: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the United States Constitution by Guy Padula 9780739102602
RRP: £95.00£83.12Popular Sovereignty or Natural Law? At a time of constitutional crisis in the American body politic, Guy Padula's timely and stimulating new work explores whether the answers to today's heated political debate can be found by scrutinizing the past. In... -
Madison v. Marshall: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the United States Constitution by Guy Padula 9780739103630
RRP: £40.00£35.22Popular Sovereignty or Natural Law? At a time of constitutional crisis in the American body politic, Guy Padula's timely and stimulating new work explores whether the answers to today's heated political debate can be found by scrutinizing the past. In... -
Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the Us, 1790-1900 by Professor Gunter Leypoldt 9783825362607
RRP: £60.00£49.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825362607Author Professor Gunter LeypoldtFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)... -
Fortune's Frenzy: A California Gold Rush Odyssey by Eilene Lyon 9781493070060
RRP: £25.00£19.67The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he believes gold is the answer to his financial woes. But it takes money to make money... -
Forster vs. Pico: The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita by Paul Bryan Gray 9780806190976
£22.37During 1873 a jury trial took place in San Diego to decide whether Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, had been the victim of a fraud by his brother-in-law, John Forster.Pico claimed title to the huge Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores... -
Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, 1850-1940 by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham 9781978800465
RRP: £33.00£29.05Winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies AssociationPutting Their Hands on Race offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers... -
Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument by Harry Rand 9781944466299
RRP: £31.00£23.48Art, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the... -
The Connell Short Guide To President Lincoln by Jolyon Connell 9781911187646
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187646Author Jolyon ConnellFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age by Geoffrey C. Ward 9780345804693
RRP: £22.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804693Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich 9780143120780
RRP: £23.69£17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120780Author Michael WillrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever by Ronald G. Shafer 9781613735404
RRP: £27.99£17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613735404Author Ronald G. ShaferFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 558g -
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth by Matthew Algeo 9781613744567
RRP: £16.95£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613744567Author Matthew AlgeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 394g -
The U.S.-Mexican War: A Binational Reader by Christopher Conway 9781603842211
RRP: £43.99£35.82Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary collection of U.S. and Mexican sources, this volume explores the conflict that redrew the boundaries of the North American continent in the nineteenth century. Among the many period texts included here are letters... -
The U.S.-Mexican War: A Binational Reader by Christopher Conway 9781603842204
RRP: £16.99£14.13Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary collection of U.S. and Mexican sources, this volume explores the conflict that redrew the boundaries of the North American continent in the nineteenth century. Among the many period texts included here are letters... -
The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation by Peter J. Kastor 9781568027067
RRP: £120.00£105.04The new reference series, Landmark Events in U.S. History, uses both contributed essays from eminent scholars and excerpts of primary source documents with explanatory headnotes to focus on critical events in American political history and explain how it... -
Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 by Sarah H. Gordon 9781566632188
RRP: £14.99£11.93Exploring the social, economic, and legal impact of the growth of the railroads, Sarah Gordon has written a richly informed narrative history of an American icon-with surprising conclusions. Where the railroads and their entrepreneurs are ordinarily... -
Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War by Curtis D. Johnson 9781566630320
RRP: £7.99£6.14In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical Protestants struggled for the mind and soul of America. Their impact on American life had immediate as well as far-reaching consequences, and is the subject of Curtis Johnson's concise and discerning... -
Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912 by William D. Green 9781517909338
RRP: £19.99£17.54The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota He had just given a rousing speech to a packed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator and conscience of the... -
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail by Sarah Keyes 9781512824513
RRP: £31.00£27.36In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried...